Monday, February 21, 2011

The House has just passed a budget bill that cuts morethan $60 billion in federal spending -- including defundingObamaCare, deep cuts to Planned Parenthood, pork projectsand elimination of federal control of Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac.

But as the bill moves to the Senate, Democrat leadersappear ready to pounce -- looking to score politicalpoints by casting Republicans as "mean-spirited" and"callous" and "insensitive" for their cost-cutting actions.

+ + "Read My Lips: We're going to cut spending."

House Speaker John Boehner's words underscore the overwhelmingpublic sentiment in the U.S. -- cut federal spending andturn away from Obama's failing "print more spend more"economic philosophy.

Patriot, with the economic noose tightening around theneck of our nation, we can't afford to play political games.

As demonstrated during the midterm elections when citizens overwhelmingly demanded fiscal responsibility from the federal government, the time is now to substantially cut spending!

That's why Grassfire Nation launched our national "Read OurLips: Cut Federal Spending!" petition to give grassrootsAmericans one more opportunity to put lawmakers on noticeand hold them accountable during what promises to be acontentious budget debate when the Senate returns frombreak beginning on February 28.

That's why we are urging ALL members of our team to addtheir name to this vital petition now so that our officialscan begin delivering to key Senate offices as soon as theyreturn.

Get ready: SEIU’s Purple Army nationwide protest schedule; teachers’ unions pressure members to show “solidarity”

We had listed what Mark Williams and some others in Sacramento CA were planning to do as far as infiltrating the SEIU rallies. We never asked our members to take that kind of action nor was that our intention.

We asked you to organize counter protests as it states below. We then showed you what SEIU is planning, a letter from Jim Testerman,PSEA President followed by Mark Williams blog. I have since removed the blog to make it clear we are NOT calling for that action to be taken but rather as it states below, this was a call to action to organize and support counter protests.

Time to get into to gear and organize your troops at the local level in the areas listed below. Contact your tea party and anyone else who will support our side. It's time to show these big labor goons and the country we can organize without big Union and DNC money!

Let us know about your planned counter protests and we will promote it.

The hallmark of the liberal control of the American government from 2007 through 2011 has been staggering unemployment. Officially, the unemployment rate hangs at ten percent. The real rate of unemployment, including under employment is closer to twenty. When you include those who have given up on searching for a job, the number becomes even more staggering.Many in the GOP field claim to be the economic savior of the county. Perhaps the loudest self-cheerleader seems to be Mitt Romney. He has been making the rounds asking, "who is going to put 15 million people back to work?"Romney of course, wants to imply that it will be him, given his vaunted business background. Given his political background, giving Massachusetts "Romneycare" and running for the United States Senate to the left of Ted Kennedy, Americans should be worried. When you look at his track record as a businessman, worry should turn into all out alarm.

From the Desk of:David Martin, Executive Vice PresidentMedia Research Center2/21/2011

For significant, positive change to take hold in America, it is crucial that the ideological alliance between Obama and the liberal media be exposed and broken. We have a plan to do just that but we need your help. See details and action items below. --David

Conservatives,The liberal media have been willingly co-opted by the Obama administration. The liberal talking points flow from DC liberals to the media and then on to the American people, though by that time they call it "news." In short, WE ARE BEING MISLED by an Obama-controlled liberal media, and unless this unholy alliance is exposed and broken it will bankrupt our nation both fiscally and morally.A quick look at how the networks are covering the flap over Wisconsin public union employees says it all ...

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Book Recommendation:Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

By John Keay. I’ve recommended this before, but given what is going on there, if you and Obama and Clinton haven’t read it, now might be a good time. A broad look at an area we will be engaged with for a long time. This is an excellent one-volume history of the Middle East, from 1890 through the Suez crisis in 1956, with an epilog to bring us up to date. The catalog of crime and invasion, contention, execution and insurrection, siege and betrayal of Hashemite vs. Wahhabi, Sunni vs. Shia vs. Kurd vs. Turk, Allies vs. Ottomans, Britain vs. France, Zionists vs. Muslims, and other groups great and small would give a tourist pause, never mind a diplomat or soldier.

Excerpt: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ordered the Libyan air force to fire on military installations in Libya, according to what the BBC has characterized as a reliable source. Al Jazeera has suggested that air force fighters have opened fire on crowds of protesters. Though the latter would be particularly draconian, the more important question is whether these signs reflect a split within the regime and Gadhafi using military force to crush opposition to his regime emerging from the military or other security forces. Similar reports of the Libyan navy firing on targets onshore also are emerging, as well as reports that Gadhafi has given execution orders to soldiers who have refused to fire on Libyan protesters. The application of conventional weaponry is noteworthy and will warrant scrutiny — particularly in terms of the targets of the attacks and the rationale behind them. The use of these weapons is more appropriate for other armed entities rather than unarmed protesters. Libyan troops are good at instilling fear, but not good at stabilizing a situation, so the military may not be able to get in on the ground due to lost capability.

SHATTERED DREAMS: The End of Fannie and Freddie

By James Rosen

Published February 21, 2011

| FoxNews.com

They date back decades, with their roots in the Great Depression. And as with anything else that has been around for so long, their mere existence, in an ever-changing world, brings some measure of comfort – and their failure instills terrifying uncertainty about what could possibly replace them.

So it is with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-created private firms that together guarantee an estimated 90 percent of all new home mortgages in the United States.

Across the last 70 years and 13 presidencies, the two firms have helped countless Americans secure long-term, fixed-rate mortgages, by purchasing them from lenders and securitizing them, all with the unofficial guarantee of the federal government backing them up. But the two saw their own corporate finances collapse, two years ago, amid the housing and credit crisis.

It's the Unions' Last Stand, and Taxpayers Must Fight the Good Fight

By Phil Kerpen

Published February 21, 2011

| FoxNews.com

The battle raging in Wisconsin has huge implications for all American taxpayers, who will be forced to shoulder the burden of out of control government spending at the state, local and federal level. The bosses -- either from the union or the Democratic Party -- who depend on a steady flow of union dues into their political coffers are desperate because they understand the stakes.

So, too, must taxpayers.

This fight will decide whether union bosses can bleed taxpayers dry no matter what happens in elections, or whether electing limited-government conservatives can result in meaningful change.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday called on Muslims to "remove" the US from the Islamic world.

"The main problem in the Muslim world is the presence of the United States. It is the biggest problem. We need to address that," he told a gathering of Shiite and Sunni scholars in Tehran for an international conference on Islam.

"It is necessary to remove the US from the Islamic world," the all-powerful cleric and Islamic republic's commander-in-chief said, adding that the country's arch-foe was currently weak.

It's All About The Socialist Unions, Not Jobs
As usual, the American press is totally misrepresenting events in Wisconsin, Ohio and beyond, where state Governors are finally taking appropriate action to address their state budget disasters before state bankruptcy is their only option. The goal of these governors is to stop the federal government from driving them into bankruptcy via federal mandates, including the insane federal demand that public sector unions be saved at the expense of state insolvency........http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams133.htm
by JB Williams

Contempt for the Rule of Law
Ordinarily when a district court judgment goes against the government, the Department of Justice will seek a stay of the order pending a decision on appeal. The Obama Administration has not sought a stay from Judge Vinson. It just violated his order with impunity. One day after Judge Vinson’s decision issued, the White House.....http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan177.htm
by Attorney Jonathan Emord

CARSON CITY - Freshman Republican state Sen.Michael Robersongot a lot of people's attention last week when he engaged in a brief but spirited line of questioning at a Judiciary Committee hearing with mining industry lobbyists.

On the job just one week, Roberson, R-Las Vegas, was trying to get information from the mining industry about their profits in Nevada. He was not satisfied with the answers, and said afterward the mining industry might be able to pay more in taxes, firing a shot across the bow of one the state's most powerful industries.

Sen. Michael Roberson

Roberson, the only attorney on the Judiciary Committee and one of only two in the 21-member Senate, did not mince words with the industry lobbyists during a discussion of ameasureto take away mining's right to use eminent domain.

In an interview in his legislative office last week, Roberson said it is his job to get the answers, and he won't stop until he does.

"What I wanted to know from mining, and I didn't get a straight answer - how much money are the mining companies making here in Nevada," Roberson said. "What's their profit? I think that's important for the people to know. And it was clear to me, the lobbyists for mining didn't want to give me those numbers."

Soros Likens Fox News, Beck, Murdoch to Nazis and says that the Tea Party is being misled!

Billionaire financier George Soros blasted Fox News, Glenn Beck and Rupert Murdoch Sunday in a CNN interview, likening them to Nazis or the fictitious “Big Brother” of George Orwell for what he described as manipulation of the public. He also suggested that the tea party movement was deluded and should be pitied because they don’t "understand" the economic forces at work in the United States, according to CNN.

Last year, Soros donated $1 million to the liberal media analysis group Media Matters, which devotes much of its work to attacking Fox. For years, the group had denied being secretly funded by Soros, who stressed that this was his first ever donation to the group.

Over the past three years, we have put out numerous emails highly critical of political correctness, noting that PC can be annoying and even exasperating, but that when it comes to the threat of radical Islam, it can be deadly.

In a month of momentous change, it was easy to overlook the significance of another revolutionary event. Who would have believed that in the space of a few weeks the leaders of the three major European powers would publicly denounce multiculturalism and declare, in so many words, that it was a proven disaster and a threat to society?

Submitted by: Donald Hank

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

Daniel 9:11

by Don Hank
In the comments section of our article “My friend Abdul,” our Muslim reader Alif gave us some things to ponder.
Firstly, he pointed out how immoral the West has become and in so doing presented an uncomfortable argument as to why Muslims would have the moral authority to rule the West and the rest of the world.
Secondly, however, he ignored my question as to why Islam favors the Koran over the Bible — and specifically, why the Bible, parts of which were written thousands of years before the Koran, and most of the historical content of which was written by contemporaries, should be given short shrift or even be ignored by Islam, which is based on the writings of one man who has never met any of the protagonists of the Bible, whom he nonetheless claims to revere. I have posed this question to Muslims for years and never receive an answer.

Some Wisconsin doctors have offered, at a public event, to write sickness excuses on request for protesting teachers, according to ABC News. A spokeswoman said that they knew they could “get in trouble,” but would take the risk because “teachers have no choice.”

“Nobody in the Pentagon will talk openly about it. Nobody in the White House knows what to do.

(Do you remember this warning I dispersed to you 10 months ago?)

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Nonetheless, I invoke you to access the address below, ignore the blaring ads, and read the meat of its content. The maps are startling. This is my message to all of you last week:

Something brewing in the ME resulting in $220 +/Bbl oil and quadrupling metal prices. It's either a scary scenario woven by ax grinders of gloom and doom or events we should day tale to coerce us to invest in something we don't need: